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> If I were a law school professor, I’d probably also say that. Or more likely a jaded B-student who has been around the block a few times. The reason this works is that the C-students include students who have always known that their so
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> Honestly, the pervasiveness of LLMs looks to really erode the critical thinking of entire future generations. Yes and no. Upper middle class parents as a group will still instill critical thinking skills in their kids. But the above co
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0. Why is the linked video gated behind a login after the first play? This is unnecessary friction, imho. 1. In some of the comments, you say that this app is aimed at “b1 and higher”. That’s fine. But then the demo video shows content that
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Indeed. I’m one of those 1/500 in multiple languages, and I love resources like these. That said, if they want to make money, the beginner / false beginner market is huge.
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… or they wanted to practice their English.
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> "Did men and women stop making babies and I didn't notice?" In the US, birth rates have declined from ~2.0 children per woman in the 90s and 00s to ~1.6 in the 20s, so yes. Also note that your numbers seem to be single o
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> For me, at least the PB and the J sound like „basically pure sugar“. As a side note, there is good peanut butter that is just roasted peanuts and salt. It’s pretty damn healthy — much more balanced and healthier than most breads or jel
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> I guess it's a routine part of China's paranoia. They definitely do do weird things to check if tourists are causing trouble in some way i guess. I’m guessing you actually did something suspicious or illegal without realizing
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I appreciate the author’s call to action, abut this just strikes me as detached from reality. I’m fairly certain that the flipside of this could easily be written ( Women, Where Have You Gone? ), and I would be equally off the mark. I will
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For reference, I’m fairly certain that kissa a shortened version of 喫茶店 ( kissaten ). That said, I’m guessing the “jazz izakaya” that gp mentioned would probably just be called a bar or izakaya, possibly with a thematic adjective added.
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I’m fairly certain that it’s a shortened version of 喫茶店 ( kissaten ).
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> Are you rich and want to own something like a soup company? This already exists. > Just lease a fully-automated factory and a bunch of AI workers, The current solution is not “fully automated”, but it can be fairly hands off for the
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> what we've gotten the last decade has been taxi and hotel apps. Nothing truly revolutionizing. I’m not sure where you are from, but this is not my perspective from Northern California. 1. Apps in general, and Uber in particular, h
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> I think that list is two items too long. This was my thought as well, at least for college sports. That said, based on the article, I imagine that the author is referring to the big revenue professional sports (“the IPO” outcome). As
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Let the front page algo do its thing. It has a purpose, and that’s a purpose that a lot of people like. That said, if you want to catch active posts that don’t make it to the front page or don’t stay long, then I strongly recommend: https:
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> Florida cracked down on the state level on businessrs a year ago so not as much of a problem as far as I understand. Omg, I’m in tears. It’s an open “secret” in some industries that it’s trivially easy to hire illegal immigrants en mas
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> I'm pretty sure people like Chuck Schumer and other centrists view the LGBTQ community as a liability. Why do you think he / “other centrists” hold that view?
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> Today we simply use college as a proxy for intelligence, so people just like to go to the highest rated college they can to be viewed as intelligent. Hmmm… I would say college is a proxy for social currency, of which intelligence is on
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> I haven’t met many men who complain about dating apps and that get dates. It seems exclusive to men who cannot get matches or dates. I’m not sure what age group you’re thinking of, but in my age range (40s and 50s), I hear tons of comp
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> why wouldn't bathrooms be designed for it? No outlet near the toilet. Non-conforming/non-standard shape of seat and/or tank.
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> if Google becomes too self-referential, it risks losing the very web it was built on This ship has sailed. Paywalls and wall-gardens are the mid-term future, imho. Most of the useful internet spaces I interact with fall under these cat
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> The best way to sell your boring contracting company is to take it off the web and wait for private equity to make an offer. Could you expand on your experience or knowledge of this? I’ve read some articles, but I would love a more “In
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This is my last reply in this thread, since all of your questions can be answered with a modicum of research, and you’re splitting hairs over wording where it doesn’t really matter (imho). Your LLM of choice is probably good enough. > Ho
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I’m going to agree with the other responder that you can look this up yourself. I will give some highlights, but none of this is particularly controversial. > Can you cite specific polices or reforms? New Deal writ large, specifically so
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> When did stakeholder capitalism magically pop up and made industrialization not "downright inhumane"? When socialism and communism were perceived as legitimate ideological threats/alternatives to democracy and capitalism
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> The Chinese cars are taking over here: it’s a product people want at a price they like If you can hazard a guess, which make and model is the “Tesla killer” for EVs, if such a car exists. I frequently suggest to folks in the US (where
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> It's worth noting that for those edge cases all the productivity monitoring in the world won't make that employee any more effective, and you won't need those tools to see that they're not cutting it (assuming you&#
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> I have no interest in working for $60k for the rest of my life. I’m not sure where you live, but folks in the trades in CA move beyond $60k fairly quickly. I realize that is partially because of CA, where full time fast food folks make
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> in the big welcome event for incoming 9th graders every mention of post high-school life was phrased as "college and career". 1. If the school pulled from a certain kind of socio-economic status population, then this is a rea
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> Doesn't "some ads work on you" just translate to "you have interests"? That is not the meaning I give it. Ads can do a lot of things. A simple example is to educate/inform. There are certain things I will
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